The dawning of President Paul Ryan's America

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) [is] running for president in 2016.

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Late last night, Ryan joined Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) ... to announce a major policy breakthrough: The two had agreed on a plan to fund the United States government for the next two years. "Deal Brings Stability to U.S. Budget," the Wall Street Journal cheered. The New York Times said it was "an end to instability."

Ezra Klein accurately described the Ryan/Murray plan as a "mini-budget deal." It ignores Medicare and Social Security.

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But in an atmosphere where our expectations are so vulgarly low—where government shutdowns and world-shaking debt defaults ... are now go-to tools for the average-IQ cheap haircuts we send to govern in our names—a "mini-budget deal" appears as a Marshall Plan, and its architects are as statesmen.

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He was very statesmanlike this week. He sold all of America on the status quo. Not even the status quo president could do that.

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In standing up to the ideologues of his own party, he shows us that he is a new Paul Ryan, a grownup, serious, a real adult in the room.

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He will run as an urbane liberal conservative with rural roots who's a great compromiser that never negotiates his principles. He will be young and vigorous with the wisdom of grownups. He will be pleasant and ardent.

He will be whatever you are, and if you are too schizophrenic to figure out what you are, America, then he will still be whatever, and you will become him.

http://gawker.com/jan-20-2017-will-signal-the-dawning-of-president-paul-1481046303